Machine for affixing closure strips, labels, or the like around boxes and similar objects.



M. FEIBUSGH. MACHINE FOR AFFIXING CLOSURE STRIPS, LABELS, OR THE LIKE AROUND BOXES AND SIMILAR OBJECTS.

APPLICATION FILED IEB.19, 1910.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

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M. FEIBUSOH. MACHINE FOR AFFIXING CLOSURE STRIPS, LABELS, OR THE LIKE AROUND BOXES AND SIMILAR OBJECTS. APPLICATION FILED FEB.19, 1910.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

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M. PEIBUSCH. MACHINE FOR APFIXING CLOSURE STRIPS, LABELS, OR THE LIKE AROUND BOXES AND SIMILAR OBJECTS. APPLICATION FILED FEB.19, 1910.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3 MACHINE FOR AFFIXING CLOSURE STRIPS, LABELS, OR THE LIKE AROUND BOXES AND Uni ED s'rarns MARTIN FEIBUSCH, F RONSDORF, GERMANY.

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SIMILAR OBJECTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1911.

Application filed February 19. 1910. Serial No. 544,802.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN FEIBUSCH, a citlzen of the German Empire, residing at Ronsdorf, 1n the Province of Rhenish Prussia and Klngdom of Prussia, Germany,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Afiixing Closure Strips, Labels, or the Like Around Boxes and Similar Objects; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The subject-matter of the presentapplica tion is a machine for aflixing closurestrips, labels or the like around boxes and similar objects, which is distinguished from wellknown similar machines by the feature that for each working operation a paper strip of suitable length after being provided with adhesive material is severed from a paper band which is drawn off a roll and which is provided, if desired, with printed matter and is then brought on to a special affixing device, whereupon the object to which the strip is to be applied and which is brought to the afiixing device by a suitable feeding device, by being pressed against said aflixing device adheres to a portion of the paper strip on said device and is then set in rotation so that it rolls on the aflixing device, the result being that the remaining portion of the strip is drawn along and adheres completely around the object in question. If the paper strip is sufiiciently long the machine sticks the one end of the strip down over the other end which enables boxes and the like composed of two halves, for example, to be closed in a dust-tight manner.

One embodiment of a machine according to the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the ma? chine, and Fig. 2 a view of the machine, the lower portion being a vertical section on the line AA of Fig. l and the upper portion being in elevation as seen from the lefthand side of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows to an enlarged scale the parts situated at the place where the objects to which the strips are to be applied pass from the feeding device into the machine, while Fig. 4 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows in elevation to an enlarged scale the device for feeding the paper band, Fig. 6 the same in section on the line BB of Fig. 5, while Fig. 7 is a section, viewed from below, on the line CC of Fig. 6.

On the machine frame 1 the shaft 2 is mounted which can be set in rotation mechanically or by hand, for example, by means of the crank 1*. Motion is transmitted from said shaft through a pair of bevel wheels 3, 4 to a vertical shaft 5 and from the latter through a pair of bevel wheels 6, 7 to a horizontal shaft 8. The latter carries a roller 9 which presses against a roller 10 situated at the same height as itself and by .means of its rotation draws over the guide roller 26 the band 12 from the roll 11. On the outer end of the shaft 8 there is also mounted a tooth wheel 13 which rotates by means of an intermediate wheel 14 the wheels 19, mounted on the shafts 15, 16 and through them the rollers 17, 18. The roller 17 is mounted on anarm 21 which is able to oscillate on the shaft 8 and said roller 17 rotates continuously in a glue receptacle 22- and normally rests against the roller 18 (see Fig. 5), the result being that the glue which the roller 17 takes up is transferred uniformly to the roller '18. A scraper'23 which is connected with the arm 21 and which is adjustable with regard to the periphery of the roller 17 enables the amount of glue to be applied to be-regu lated. The free upper end of the arm 21. is formed as a hook 24 which in the working position of the machine rests against a screw 25 provided with a thumb-screw nut and can be fixed in this posit-ion by tightening up the nut. I

By turning the arm '21 about the shaft 8 the wheel 14 supported in'the arm 21 can be brought out of engagement with the wheel 20 and the roller 17 can be brought out of contact with the roller 18, so that the latter does not rotate and is not fed with glue. The band of paper 12 which is drawn between the rollers 9, 10 is led over a roller 26 before passing between said rollers. Said roller'26 is in contactwith a roller 28 rotating in a receptacle 27 containing water which moistens the bandof paper. The object of this is to stretch the band in order that after being stuck around one of the boxes or the like it may, through contraction on becoming dry, tighten itself firmly around the box, and in the case of a box composed of two halves form an air-tight closure. The moistened band is then led around the roller 18 and is coated by 1t with glue and is detached from the same by means of a scraping-device 29 resting agalnst the roller 18 (see Fig. 5). After this the band 12 is led past a knife 30 and onward able speed in the'direction of the arrow from the shaft 5 through the toothed-wheels 40, 41, 42 (see Figs. 6 and 7). The knife 38 is mounted loosely on the shaft 39 and is so subjected to the influence of a helical spring 44 which surroundssaid shaft and which is fixed to the same at one end and acts with its other end on a pin 43 on the knife 38, that said spring presses the knife in an axial direction against the collar (39) on the shaft and at the same time tends to keep the shoulder at the end of a recess 45 in the nave of the knife in contact with an abutment pin 46 on the above-mentioned.

collar 39.

In the support of the shaft 39 a square bolt 47 is provided which a spring 48 tends to keep down within reach of the knife 38 so that during the rotation of the shaft 39 the knife 38 is held back by said bolt in opposition to the influence of the spring 44 until-the bolt 47 is raised and consequently released from the knife by a nose 49 on the above-mentioned collar 39 onthe shaft 39. The result of this is that the movable knife 38 flies forward suddenly, so that the paper band is cut off neatly in spite of the continuous slow forward movement of the same.

The strip of paper severed by this cuttingdevice is then brought to the afiixing device proper by the conveying cords 35, 36 which are-driven from the shaft 2 through a pair of toothed wheels 50, 51 and the shaft 51 and the driving rollers 31, 33 of which are connected with one another by toothed wheels. 52, 53. On said afiixing device the strip of paper is stuck around the object in question in the manner hereinafter set forth.

This afiixin'g device consists of a frame 54 around which passes an endless banli 57 which is guided over rollers 55, 56 and which is preferably elastic (see Fig.5). The roller is mounted revolubly on a horizontal pin 58 which is supported in the machine frame and which is connected with the afiixing member so that the whole frame can swing about this pin. With the pin 58 there is connected at the one end a lever 59 on which a spring 60 engaging on the machine frame acts, which spring tends usually to keep the frame in such a pos1t1on -that the band 57 is approximately tangential to the revoluble drum 61 for the objects and on the other end of the pin 58a toothed segment 62 is carried which is in engagement with a segment 63 mounted on a pin 64 which is revoluble on the machineframe. On said pin 64 a lever 65 is fixed the end of which carries a roller 66 which throu h the instrumentality of the segments 62, 63 is pressed by the spring 60 against the periphery of the drum 61 and consequently at the same time forms alimit for the stroke of the lever 59 and so determines also the one terminal position of the frame 54.

The objects 67 (boxes or the like) around which the aper strips are to. be stuck roll downward in a channel starting from a table 68 andsupported by the table edest-al 69 and are stopped at its end by a nger71 (Figs. 1, 3 and 4) and two lateral'ch'eeks 72 and are then delivered to the drum 61 which is mounted on the shaft 75 supported in bearings on the machineframe and driven through a pair of wheels 73, 74 from the shaft 2. On the drum 61 there are mounted in a circle and at regular intervals the ency for the chem s 79 to be pressed towardthe cheeks 7 6 while the inner end of each'lever is pressed against a stationary disk 82 provided with a lateral elevation ,82. run

ning around theshaft 75 and ascending after t the manner of a screw thread. Consequently when the drum 61 rotates the levers 80 execute. an oscillation which is of such a magnitude and is timed by the rotation of the drum in such a wa that the cheeks 79 approach the cheeks 6 at the moment when both are opposite the lowermost box resting in the channel 70, or in other words, when the box is between them, so that the box is then clasped bythem, is carried forward, is led to the afiixing device provided with the adhesive paper strip as is hereinafter set forth. Whenthe paper strip has been stuck around the box the cheek 79 moves in consequence of the elevations 82 away from the cheek 76 i and releases the box which now falls into a channel 83 and is led away., When the cheeks 76, 79 clasp a box, said cheeks engage under the lateral cheeks 72 holding thebox in position and force said cheeks 72 upward when the drum 61 ro tates. The cheeks 72 when the box is removed from their reach are drawn down again by springs 84 so as to be able to hold the next box. The boxes clasped by the clamping cheeks 76, 79 are moved by the drum 61 to the aflixing device. The frame 54 normally occupies the position indicated in Fig. 5 and is turned about the pin 58 at theinstant when one of the elevations 85 which are arranged on the circumference'of the drum opposite the arms of the latter passes under the lever (see Fig. 1). In the new position now occupied by the frame 54, the band 57 is approximately vertical and the paper band 12 hangs down in front of said band 57, that side of the paper band which is provided with adhesive material facing the approaching box. The latter finally comes against the paper band and presses the latter against the frame 54, the paper band sticking to the box, this being favored by the elastic band 57 on the frame 54 since said elastic band yields when the box is pressed against it, so that the box comes into contact with the band over a considerable part of its circumference. In order that this box may force its way deeper into the trough of the frame 54, a device is provided which automatically effects an alteration of the tension of the band 57 in such a manner that the tension of-the band is a minimum at the commencement of the affixing process, while afterward, for the purpose of completing the affixing operation the band is stretched more tightly. For this purpose the frame-member 54 carrying the guide roller 56 (see Fig. 5) is pivotally connected with the other parts of the same and can be turned by means of a lever 87 keyed firmly on its pivot 86. This lever 87 is subjected to the influence of a spring 88 which tends to turn it so that the distance of the rollers 55, 56 from one another and consequently the tension of the band is reduced. A lever 89 which is revolubly mounted on theframe 54 and the lower end of which is stepped and rest-s under the action of a spring 90 against the end ofthe lever 87 limits this turning movement. At the commen'cement of the afiixing process the end of the lever 87 rests in the upper recess 91 of the lever 89 (see Fig. 5) so that the distance apart of the rollers 55, 56 is now a minimum. On the box penetrating into the trough of the frame 54 said box finally forces outward the frame-member 54 with the roller 56, the result being that the lever 87 is turned in opposition tothe spring 88 and-the lever 89 now snaps with its recess 92 over the end of the lever 87. Consequently the distance apart of the rollers 55, 56 and also the tension of the band becomes greater, which is desirable for the continuance of the operation of sticking the paper strip on the box. The return of the frame 54 into the position shown in Fig. 5 takes place under the influence of the spring 60 acting on the lever 59, which is connected with the segment 62, as soon as the roller '66 leaves the elevation 85 on the drum 61. On said return taking place the lever 89 strikes against a stop 93 fixed on the machine frame and is consequently turned through such an angle that the lever 87 can again snap into the recess 91, so that the tension of the band is again suitable for the commencement of the next affixing process.

The affixing process proper is now performed as follows. The box is pressed by the drum 61 against the band 57 on the frame 54 which band is vertical at first, or rather against the paper band hanging in front of said band 57 and is thereby pressed into the elastic band 57 so that the end of the paper strip is stuck to the box. 011 the drum 61 co'ntinuingto turn the frame 54 is raised and turned into the horizontal position,-while the band 57 remains continuously in contact with the box, and the small toothed wheel 78 mounted on the pivot 77 of the clamping cheek 76 comes into engagement with a toothed segment 94 fixed on the machine frame and is rotated in the direc tion of the arrow (Fig. 5). By means of this motion while the box is being carried forward over the frame 54 the paper strip which has already been stuck partially around the box is drawn along and completely applied to the box, the ends of the strip, if the latter is of a suitable length. being stuck the one over the other. During this operation the elastic band 57 on the frame 54 is pressed closely against the box and presses the paper strip against the same. The front end of the toothed segment 94 is suitably arranged to be capable of yielding inward for the purpose of preventing the breakage of teeth if, when the teeth begin to engage, one tooth of the small wheel 78 comes on one tooth of the segment 94. This capacity to yield may be provided by arranging a part of the segment revolubly on a pivot 94 and causing a spring 94 to act on the one end of this portion of the segment, which portion is arranged like a lever. After the box with the label applied around it has left the frame 54, it rolls along the brush 95 so that the paper strip is pressed especially well against the DOX. The box with the strip completely applied to it is then released from the clamping cheeks 76, 79 in the manner already described and it rolls along a channel 83 into a suitable receptacle while the cheeks 7 6, 79 clasp a new box and bring it into the working position.

As is evident from the above description this machine is a continuously working ma chine and as long as boxes are to a suflicient number inserted in the feed-channel 7 0, they are automatically brought to the afiixing place and here likewise automatically a suitable paper strip is stuck around them. It is obvious that the details of the construction of the machine may be different from those in the example illustrated.

'What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine for sticking fastening or other like strips around boxes and other similar objects, the combination of a machine-frame, a roll of strip-material, a pair of rollers for withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of rollers for applying adhesive material to the strip-material, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the strip material, and conveying bands moving in a vertical plane, the above-mentioned two pairs of rollers, cutting device and bands bein arranged one abovethe other in the or er enumerated and all being arranged above the hereinafter mentioned box-carrying drum, an affixing device at the end of the conveying bands and a box-carrying drum, said device projecting into the said drum.

2. In a machine for sticking fastening or other like strips around boxes and other similar objects, the combination of a machine-frame, a roll of strip-material, a pair of rollers for withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of rollers for applying adhesive material to the strip-material, means for parting the strip-material from said rollers, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the strip-material, and conveying bands moving in a vertical plane, the above-mentioned two pairs of rollers, cut-ting device and bands being arranged one above the otherin'the order enumerated and all being arranged above the box-carrying drum, an affixing device at the end of the conveying bands and a boxcarrying drum, said device projecting into the said drum.

3. In a machine for sticking fastening or other like strips around boxes and other similar objects, the combination of a machine-frame, a roll of strip-material, a pair of rollers for withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of.rollers for applying adhesive material to the stripmaterial, a scraper for parting the strip material from said rollers, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the stripmaterial, and conveying bands moving in a vertical plane, the above-mentioned two pairs of rollers, cutting device and bands being arranged one above the other in the order enumerated and all being above the box-carrying drum, an afiixing device at the end of the. conveying bands and a boxcarrying drum, said device projecting into the said drum. .c

4. In a machine for sticking fastening or other like strips aroundboxes and other similar objects, the combination of a machine-frame, a roll of strip-material, a pair of rollers for -withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of rollers for applying adhesive material to the stripmaterial, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the strip-material, and conveying bands moving in a vertical plane, 7 the above-mentioned two pairs of rollers, cutting device and bands being arranged one above the other in the order enumerated and all being arranged above the boxcarrying drum, an affixing device at the 5 end of the conveying bands and a boxcarrying drum, said device projecting into the said drum and comprising a pivoted frame, a band passing around said frame, and a spring-influenced arm on said frame 2 which normally occupies such a position that the frame is approximately tangential to the drum.

5. In a machine for sticking fastening or other like strips around boxes and other S similar objects, the combinationof a machine-frame, a roll of strip-materiaLa pair of rollers for withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of rollers for applying adhesive material to the strips material, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the strip-material, and

conveying bands moving in a vertical plane,

the above-mentioned two pairs of rollers, cutting device and bands being arranged I one above the other in the order enumerated and all being arranged above the box -carryingdrum, an affixing device at the end of the conveying bands and a box-carryin drum having two ends with an interval etween 1 and having a series of' elevations on the periphery of one of said ends, said device projecting into the said drum and comprising a pivoted frame, a band passing around said frame, a spring-influenced arm I on said frame which normally occupies such a position that the frame is approximately tangential to the drum, and a toothed seg ment fixed to said frame, a second toothed segment arranged on the machine-frame and I engaging with the other toothed segment and an arm connected with said second segment and resting at its end on the peri' hery of the drum-end provided with elevations.

. '6. In a machine for sticking fastening or 3 influenced lever 89 having recesses 91, '92

at its end in which theend of the arm 87 engages, and a spring-influenced arm 59 1 rigidly connected with said frame and a stop 93 on the machine-frame with which the lever 89 engages.

7. In a machine. for sticking fastening or other like strips around boxes and other similar objects, the combination of a machine-frame, a roll ofstrip-material, a pair of rollers for withdrawing the strip-material from said roll, a pair of rollers for applying adhesive material to the stripmaterial, a cutting device for severing separate pieces from the strip-material, and conveying bands moving in a vertical plane, the above mentioned two pairs of rollers, cutting device and bands being arranged one above the other in the order enumerated and all being arranged above the box-carrying drum, an aflixing device at the end of the conveying bands and a box-carrying drum, said device projecting into the said drum, said drum being'providedwith revoluble box-clamping cheeks having toothed driving wheels, and a fixed toothed segment MARTIN FEIBUSCH. 14.5.

Witnesses:

O'r'ro KoNIG, WILLY KLEIN. 

